To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

«^ 7é
Vietnam Day Committee News
<iC?£
Vol.l,No.l
June 22-30, 1965
QUOTE OF THE WEEK!
". . . THE FAIREST VISION ON WHICH THESE EYES EVER
LOOKED WAS THE FLAG OF MY COUNTRY IN A FOREIGN
LAND. " s
President Lyndon Johnson (speaking at a labor union meeting
in support of the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic --
quoted in the S. F. Chronicle).
LYNDON JOHNSON UPSIDE DOWN?
Norman Mailer climaxed the Vietnam Day meeting last
month with a suggestion aimed at the ego of our President.
The following is the conclusion of Mailer's talk:
"Now I have one set of remarks more to make. They
concern practical suggestions. I've been visionary in
my demands. For it is visionary in 1956 to ask of
America that it return to isolationism. No, this country
wishes to have an empire. The grimmest truth my be
that half of America at least must not be unwilling to
have a war in Vietnam. Otherwise Lyndon Johnson could
not have made his move, since Lyndon Johnson never in
his life has dreamed of moving against a majority. Let
us then insist on this: it is equally visionary, but it is
at least visionary in a military way, and we are talking
to militarists. Let us say that we are going to have a
war with the Vietcong. Let it be a war of foot soldier
against foot soldier. If we wish to take a strange country
away from strangers, let us at least be strong enough
and brave enough to defeat them on the ground. Our
marines, some would say, are the best soldiers in the
world. The counter-argument is that native guerillas
can defeat any force of a major power man-to-man.
Let us then fight on fair grounds. Let us say to Lyndon
Johnson, to monstrous McNamara and to the generals
on the scene, "Fight like men. Go in man-to-man,
against the Vietcong. Call off the Air Force. They
prove nothing except that America is co-terminus with
the Mafia. Let us stop pulverizing people whose faces
we have never seen. Let us win man-to-man or lose
man-to-man. " But, of course, we will not stop, nor will
we ever fight man-to-man against poor peasants. Their
vision of existence might be more ferocious and more
determined than our own. No, we would rather go on
as the most advanced monsters of civilization, pulverizing
instinct with our detonations, our State Department experts in their little bow ties, and our bombs.
Only listen, Lyndon Johnson, you've gone too far this
time. You are a bully with an Air Force. And since
you will not call off your Air Force, there are young
people who will persecute you back. It is a little thing,
but it will hound you into nightmares and endless corridors of night without sleep.
These young people are, I think, going to print up little
pictures of you Lyndon Johnson, the size of postage cards,
the size of stamps. And some of them will glue these
pictures of you to walls and posters and telephone booths
and billboards .
They will find places to put these pictures. They will
want to paste your picture on a postcard and send it to
you. Some will send it to your advisors. Some will
send these pictures to men and women in other schools.
These pictures will be sent everywhere. These pictures
will be pasted up everywhere. --Upside down. . .
For listen, this is only one of the thousand things they
will do. They will go on marches and they will make
demonstrations, and they will begin a war of public protest against you which will never cease. It will go on and
on and get stronger and stronger.
Vietnam. Hot Damn. "You Lyndon Johnson will see
those pictures up everywhere--upside down. Four inches
high and forty feet high. You Lyndon Baines Johnson,
are going to be coming up for air, everywhere upside
down. Everywhere, upside down.' Upside down'. (Applause)"
Massive Demonstration
Planned For LB J
The Vietnam Day Committee, which organized the
Berkeley Teach-in, calls for a massive turnout this
weekend to picket President Johnson when he comes
to San Francisco to commemorate the United Nations.
The picket line will begin at 7 p. m. Friday night
outside the Fairmont hotel, where LBJ will stay.
When Johnson arrives we will be there to greet him
appropriately. Correction: îv^ark Hopkins
From the Fairmont we will march to tne oivic
Center where we will hold an all-night vigil.
Then at / a.m. we will begin picketing the Opera
House where Johnson will speak at 10 a.m.
At 1 p. m. we will hold our own public meeting
to discuss USA violations of the UN charter in
Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. We have invited delegates of forty-five countries to address
us there.
Joan Baez and a Dominican Republic rebel on
tour of the U.S.A. to collect money for the civil
war there will appear at the rally. The remainder
of the speakers' list is incomplete.
Many groups are joining the VDC in these demonstrations. They include Women for Peace in
Berkeley, San Francisco and El Cerrito; Men for
Peace; Citizens Committee of Correspondence,
East Bay; East Bay Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Faculty Peace
Committee at Berkeley; Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom; Concerned Citizens of Palo Alto; various Democratic Party Clubs,
and others.
The Johnson visit to the U.N. here gives Bay Area
peace forces an opportunity to communicate directly
to him and to the world's press how we feel about
American intervention in Vietnam and the Dominican
Republic. An ideological statement from the VDC
appears on page 4.
Car pools from Berkeley leave Bancroft and Dana
at 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday night and 6:30 to 7:15
a.m. Saturday morning.
Vietnam Community Project
The Vietnam Community Project is mobilizing opposition in the East Bay to the war through intensive corn-
unity effort.
Saturdays : Our current project is a door-to-door can-
vas in selected neighborhoods in Berkeley and Oakland
to inform people about the war. Through this activity
we hope to recruit workers within the community and
thereby form the basis for polictical organization of
neighborhoods.
A large scale petition to end the war is planned for
July 10th.
Community work groups leave Saturday at 10:00 and
1:00 from 2502 Telegraph (at Dwight Way)
General Meeting Thursday at 8:00 at Waiden School,
2446 McKinley St. (at Dwight Way). All Welcome.
For more information, call Barbara Gullahorn:845-9035.

Copyright belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.

Copyright belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.